Catalog
2 Tolarja
| Issuer | Bank of Slovenia |
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| Year | 1990 |
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| Reference(s) | P#2 |
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| Reverse description | The denomination numeral 2 occupies the central field, with the country name REPUBLIKA SLOVENIJA inscribed above. A vignette of the Prince's Stone (Knežji kamen / Fürstenstein), an ancient coronation stone of the Dukes of Carinthia, is positioned in the lower left corner. |
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| Protection type | Watermark |
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Slovenia's first independent banknote series, issued in October 1991 following the declaration of independence from Yugoslavia, replaced the Yugoslav dinar through a two-stage process — first the tolar bон (bon), a temporary parallel currency, then the permanent tolar. This 2 tolarja belongs to the transitional bon series, printed domestically by Cetis in Celje rather than commissioned abroad, an unusual choice that reflected both the urgency of the moment and a deliberate assertion of self-sufficiency.
Cetis had a long background in security printing, but producing a sovereign currency on short notice under contested political conditions was a different order of challenge. The watermark is the only significant security feature — a thin specification for a note circulating during such an unstable period.